Hoag Acquires WOMANOLOGY® Program to Address Pelvic Floor Disorders

By Physician News Network

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian announced the opening of WOMANOLOGY®
by Hoag, a comprehensive, integrated program for women in Orange County
who are facing incontinence, painful sexual intercourse and other pelvic
floor disorders.

Childbearing is one of the main culprits, but obesity and other factors
also contribute to debilitating pelvic floor conditions. A National Institutes
of Health study found that pelvic floor disorders affect 10% of women
ages 20 to 39, 27% of women ages 40 to 59, 37% of women ages 60 to 79
and nearly half of women age 80 or older.

For more than 12 years,
WOMANOLOGY
has operated a private clinic in Irvine and recently added a second location
in Fullerton that is dedicated to providing complementary, holistic treatment
and rehabilitation for women experiencing pelvic floor issues. When founder
and physical therapist Robin Christenson, MPT, decided to sell her clinics
in late 2014, she chose to sell them to Hoag.

“When I sold WOMANOLOGY I felt as though I was putting my baby up
for adoption,” Christenson said. “I trust Hoag’s caring
staff and incredibly forward-thinking medical team to expand upon the
vision of helping women live better lives.”

Like its predecessor, WOMANOLOGY by Hoag offers women comprehensive, integrated
treatment for pelvic floor health in a calm spa-like setting. By bringing
the complementary and alternative medicine practice under Hoag, patients
will now also have access to top-quality clinicians, said Allyson Brooks,
MD, executive medical director of the Hoag Women’s Health Institute,
one of the first physicians in Orange County to refer patients to WOMANOLOGY
12 years ago.

“Robin assembled an outstanding specialized team of acupuncturists,
Pilates instructors, massage therapists and guided imagery therapists,
all of whom are now on Hoag’s staff,” she said. “WOMANOLOGY
by Hoag combines the trusted complementary care of WOMANOLOGY with the
expert medical care of Hoag’s Women’s Health Institute.”

Though part of the Women’s Health Institute, WOMANOLOGY by Hoag
does not have a “clinical” feel to it. Instead, Hoag has adopted
the program’s signature “spa-like” setting and will
appeal to the emotional as well as clinical side of treatment for these issues.

To address the needs of men with pelvic pain, Hoag also acquired an additional
component of the trademarked program of WOMANOLOGY that focuses on men
called, RESTORE HIM.